OMG: Porn in cyberspace

With one click of a mouse your child can view images too shocking to describe here. But are they savvy enough to see through it?

Porn of all varieties is readily available on laptops and mobile devices (Getty)
Tom was nine when he first looked at porn on the internet. At first it was a
little secret, something he did every month or so. But by the time he was 12
and away at boarding school, he was surfing porn sites on his laptop under
the bed covers every night. To camouflage what he was doing, he hid his
favourite pictures inside Word documents.

He was 15 before he had his first sexual experience with a girl. By that time,
he had spent six years viewing porn on the internet; almost everything he
knew about sex he had learnt from explicit websites. At 17 he was dating his
first real girlfriend, and recalls: “My mind was full of a pretty
inappropriate mixed bag of fantasies and scenarios.” Perhaps unsurprisingly,
when it came to making love to a real person, someone he cared about, he had
no idea how